Australian Birds Photo Gallery by Peter Bray at pbase.com

Australian Birds

I've always had a love of birds. Australia has a far more diverse range than New Zealand (in fact
around half of New Zealand's birds originate directly from Australia) and trying to capture images
of as many of them as possible is an absorbing pastime. Many of these are posted as full frame
full resolution (mostly where my ability is up to the mark) but some are cropped - further work
required. I hope you enjoy.....

:: Australian Parrots ::	:: Honeyeaters ::	:: Robins ::	:: Australian Finches ::	:: Wrens, Thornbills, Gerygones, Pardalotes, Whistlers ::
Rainbow Bee-eater	Bee-eater	Bee-eaters	Pied Currawong	Nankeen Night Heron
Willie Wagtail	Pelican	Great Egret	Fan Tailed Cuckoo	Crested Terns - Fraser Island
Sea Eagle	Apostle Bird	Rainbow Flight	Brolgas - "Lake" Nugga Nugga	Brahminy Kite
Sea Eagle	Satin Bower Bird Male	Wood duck and Chicks	Grey Fantail	White Faced Heron
Wedgetail Eagle	Sand Plover	Kookaburra	Wedgetail Eagle	Bush Stone Curlew
Sacred Kingfisher	Peaceful Doves	Black Backed Magpie	Little Pied Cormorant	Shrike Thrush
Shrike Thrush	Lyre Bird - Washpool National Park	Slivereye	Azure Kingfisher	Azure King Fisher
Tree Creeper	White Throated Tree Creeper	Darter	Female Satin Bower Bird	Beach Stone Curlews
Beach Stone Curlew	Magpie Lark	Little Pied Cormorant Drying Wings	Grey Fantail	Wedgetail Eagle
Crow	Satin Bowerbird Female	Satin Bowerbird Male	Grey Butcher Bird - Immature	Australian White Ibis
Straw-necked Ibis	Australian Pelicans	Varied Triller	Grey Butcher Bird	Spangled Drongo
Spur Winged Plover	Australian Pipit	Female Fig Bird	Regent Bower Bird - Male	Regent Bower Bird - Female
Whip Bird - Female	Whip Bird Male	Whip Bird Male	Crow	Green Catbird
Pacific Gull	Silver Gull	Brown Quail	Crested Tern	Scrub Turkey
Crested Pigeon	Collared Sparrow Hawk	Sacred Kingfisher	Channel Billed Cuckoo	Fan Tailed Cuckoo
Azure Kingfisher	Little Black Cormorant - And Friend	Dollar Bird	Restless Flycatcher	Grey Shrike Thrush
Brush Cuckoo	Brown Cuckoo Dove	Bush Stone Curlew	Cisticola	Red-Capped Plover Female
Red Capped Plover Male	Monarch Flycatcher	Bar Shouldered Dove	Squatter Pigeon	Azure Kingfisher
Great Egrets / Yin-Yang	White Necked Heron	Black Kite	White Necked Heron Fishing	Blue Winged Kookaburra
Male Sunbird	Apostle Bird	Rufous Fantail	Latham's Snipe	Spinifex Pigeons
Black Falcon	Cassowary up Close	Sarus Crane	Yellow-billed Spoonbill	Female Fig Bird
Male Fig Bird	Cassowary	Black Fronted Dotterel	Papuan Frogmouth	Royal Spoonbill
Black Faced Wood Swallow	Tawny Frogmouth	Channel Bill Cuckoo	Scrub Turkey	Black Tailed Native Hen
Wedgetail Eagle	Bar Shouldered Dove	Orange Footed Scrub Fowl	Striated Herron	Wood Duck - Female
Varied Triller	Crow	Grey Shrike Thrush - Immature	Western Bower Bird	Diamond Dove
Olive Backed Oriole	Wonga Pigeon	Black SwanTaking Off	Bassian Thrush	Wedgetail Eagle
Bush Stone Curlew	Whistling Duck	Spectacled Monarch Flycatcher	Little ShrikeThrush	Pied Imperial Pigeon
Yellow Oriole	Eastern Reef Heron	White Throated Tree Creeper	Azure Kingfisher	Pallid Cuckoo
White Breasted Woodswallow	Dusky Moorhen	Tasmanian Black Tailed Hen	Brolgas - Normanton	Rainbow Bee Eater
White Browed Wood Swallow	Brown Tree Creeper	Southern Whiteface	Great Billed Heron	Avocet - Lake Peery
Australian Owlet-nightjar	Black Shouldered Kite	White Quilled Rock Pigeon	Young Emu	Golden Headed Cisticola
Tawny Frogmouth	Tawny Frogmouth	Mistletoe Bird	Great Bower Bird	Glossy Ibis
Pied Heron	Australian Pratincole	Brown Falcon	Jacana - Biiiig Feet!	Spur Winged Plover
Whiskered Tern - Immature	Little Eagle	Whistling Kite	White Winged Triller	Wedgetail Eagle
Dollar Bird	Yellow-billed Spoonbill	Shinning Bronze Cuckoo	Intermediate Egret	Forest Kingfisher
Sunbird - Male	Azure Kingfisher	Channel Billed Cuckoo	Red Capped Plover - Female	Rufous Fantail
Paradise Rifle Bird	Australian Pelican	Pheasant Coucal	Caspian Tern	Australian Darter - Male
Pacific Golden Plover	Grey-tailed Tattler	Red-kneed Dotterel	Painted Snipe	Osprey
Spangled Drongo	White Throated Tree Creeper

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Claude Gagnon		14-May-2023 12:18
Thanks for sharing these wonderful birds! Bravo for this amazing gallery :)) V

Guest		26-Apr-2015 07:27
Karolin Hafstad Fantastic shots, Lots of patients capturing there true beauty and pose. Thank you for sharing ! Recognize quite a few!

Vince		08-May-2014 18:36
really Fantastic shots of some of the worlds most beautiful Birds & I have the Pleasure of owning some of them where I can sit and watch them and others FLY freely in my Aviary,s Thank you so much for showing these to us .

Ramya		13-Jan-2014 05:40
awesome clicks! now i know which one is which...thanks a bunch for sharing.

Lynda		19-Oct-2013 09:55
THank you, great help to help identify birds. Just beautiful.

Janet		20-Sep-2013 20:12
Enjoyed these very much. Good luck with getting more wonderful shots.

Guest		17-Jun-2013 09:41
very impressive collection of photos,you have convinced me to buy a sigma 120-300 f2.8,thanx

Bert Ooms		20-Jul-2012 11:26
Marvellous collection! What fantastic range of colorful birds you have there. I do indeed recognize a few birds from New Zealand where I was a few times. Perhaps next time to Australia.. Best, Bert

Lampridis Dimitris		20-Nov-2011 19:19
Amazing Collection *****

Guest		05-Oct-2011 04:19
Great gallery~~v

John Hamers		03-Oct-2011 10:57
Beautiful bird gallery !! Nice work !! V

Shaukat Ali Eshai.		03-Oct-2011 10:20
Beautiful photos,enjoyed all of them,thanks for uploading.

Guest		21-Aug-2011 23:39
What a wonderful gallery: especially for those of us on the other side of the globe. Thank you for sharing!

M.Zawahir		18-Dec-2010 05:50
Australia is full of birds specialy parrots , pls add more parrot varieties.Fabulous job,keep it up.Thanks.Chef Zawahir from Sri Lanka.

aidan mccarthy		17-Dec-2010 14:41
brill shots

Willie Cecogo		25-Oct-2010 07:56
You have a wonderful bird collection. congrats!

Alain Dumas		18-Oct-2009 02:40
Impressive gallery, so is the camera and lens, great work!

vicky		11-Oct-2009 01:38
you have a wonderful skill in capturing these beautiful birds in their habitat unfortunatley you haven't captutured the one i'mlooking for the brown headed honey eater but enjoyed identifying others in my local area thankyou!!

Christin Tr�ger		23-Jul-2009 14:48
Fantastic gallery, awesome captures.

Guest		03-May-2009 20:24
Enjoyed this gallery a lot. Many thanks.

SP Merrill		15-Feb-2009 20:24
Super collections of shots.

Colin Storey		13-Feb-2009 09:30
fantastic gallery

J.M. Ricky		13-Feb-2009 06:43
Awesome gallery.

Guest		22-Dec-2008 10:37
amazing collection, wondorfull colours..

Ian		21-Oct-2008 10:25
Lots of time and effort here, well done on some great images and a great collection of birds.

gardener		29-May-2008 08:52
A lot of hard work and patience is at work in this gallery. Thanks for sharing.

Betty Wilchek		22-May-2008 04:00
Absolutely a spectacular Gall. GMV

Guest		14-May-2008 09:55
Very beautiful and colourful gallery!! Great work, VOTE!!

Ali Majdfar		13-May-2008 10:47
Splendid gallery, stunning shots. GMV

Pablo Y��ez		26-Mar-2008 08:14
A stunning gallery/collection both in terms of aesthetics and information. Big vote

Tion		02-Feb-2008 18:04
You should really make some bird games. Thank you if you do!

Tion		02-Feb-2008 17:59
Your birds are great, keep up the good work. But you must come to Guyana to see many more lovely birds.

Birte Person		21-Oct-2007 10:44
Wonderfull gallery,keep shooting, Australia is set to loose up to 70% of its bird population within the next 50 years due to global warming.

H.Vellekoop		21-Oct-2007 09:44
I saw a lot of these birds when I visited Australia. Thanks for the beautiful pictures

Trevor Hovenden		14-Oct-2007 00:46
Wow, I know how hard some of these are to capture, well done, great collection Trev

Guest		12-Oct-2007 18:37
Quite a collection - you must have tremendous patience and dedication to accumulate all these different species.

Guest		04-Sep-2007 12:12
I like your birds!

Guest		28-Aug-2007 00:30
A gorgeous collection of birds you have here! Very well done. V

Guest		24-Aug-2007 10:09
Wow !!!! Sure better than the books. Thanks.

Guest		20-Aug-2007 10:20
Great gallery

Ashish Paliwal		15-Aug-2007 10:15
Amazing Amazing shots.... Great work, wish to take pictures like your some day :-)

Robert Houde		12-Aug-2007 01:53
Beautifull galery with nice shots.

Jean Chiasson		12-Aug-2007 01:15
Wonderful gallery vote

Paul Hus, Bangalore		03-Aug-2007 10:51
Fabulous. Add more.

Milan Vogrin		02-Aug-2007 20:24
Very nice shots! Well done!

andy ( convert)		27-May-2007 11:29
These are ALL great shots. Hey! I live in the South West West Australia. You are welcome to stay here any time you are over this way. I have a sigma as well. I might learn something hanging around. I also know the local areas well. as A lot of the back tracks around the area. Some of the geology. love exploring. I am 200 K south of Perth. Collie.

Jacky Lee		19-May-2007 10:34
many of them are great shots!

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